[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-26 Thread papukaija
** Tags added: karmic ** Summary changed: - Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala + Highpitched rattling like sound with 5.1 surround configuration -- Highpitched rattling like sound with 5.1 surround configuration

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-16 Thread xtknight
: hehehe...well i am no stranger to this bug tracker :) i have a few patches (i think around 5+) in the ubuntu system although probably not in the latest versions any more. in most cases my debdiff leads to the final patch. I try to help every now and then. first off, it does not make

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-16 Thread cccccccc
Thanks for answer. I wonder why you're helping us without having direct benefit. I decided to install your package (not that your authentication convinced me, but since it's year my 5+1 is not working in great Ubuntu, I'm in mood to kill). I am afraid, I will not help you with support, because I

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-16 Thread xtknight
: I do benefit, as actually I fixed the bug for myself as well. ;) Truthfully other people found the SIMD bug and I just packaged the fix. Sorry, I'm not sure what to do about your other problem. Regards -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-15 Thread cccccccc
xtknight, you did a lot of work here. thanks. but, who are you? are you pulseaudio developer? i really do not understand why we all write here almost one year and yet still we have only fuzzy answers. shouldn't we write to some pulseaudio forums? yet i did not try xtknight's repo, i'm little

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-03 Thread Marc de Vries
I can confirm that xtknight's patch does indeed fix the problem for me. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-07-01 Thread Jmadero
Problem is much worse again with the newest updates (could have been the kernel update). I had gotten mine working relatively well as long as I didn't adjust the front/back or sub settings, now if I adjust the volume at all the screech comes in and is horrible. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-28 Thread xtknight
Jerther: thank you for your work. You have made instructions from a user's perspective at least, something I didn't have the patience to do. I know my script was trash since the beginning, just had no patience to continue the project. We knew the problem all along, but as I suspected, people

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-28 Thread xtknight
* THE CRACKLING FIX (works for 2/2 people!) * (Jerther went through the pains to figure the clean-room installation out) Following the steps exactly, no omissions (last one will reboot your computer). sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xt-knight/ppa sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude upgrade

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-27 Thread Jerther
I shut the machine down yesterday night. So I turned it on today to do your tests. Everything was as usual: can't play anything and PA was still in 5.1 mode. So I tried it in stereo mode. As expected, sound was okay. Then I switched it back to 5.1 and... you're not gonna believe it: it worked!

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread xtknight
Jerther: Okay, so you said, without my patch you get full working 5.1 with crackling, but with my patch you get only left channel with no crackling, is that correct? I know my patch works with at least two channels and I suspect it should work with any number, so let's see what's going on.

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread xtknight
Jerther: Okay, I think there are problems with me installing lirc pulseaudio packages with lirc not installed, or other things like avahi. I guess I did not catch this because I had the packages installed. However, trying it in a clean chroot revealed the issues. It seems like all that needs

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread Brian Murray
** Tags added: patch -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread Jerther
@xtknight Just to clear things up, with a clean install of ubuntu, stereo sound is perfect. however, in 5.1 mode, I hear high pitched rattling sound, just like this bug reports. When I install your patch using your script or your PPA in my source.list, stereo stays fine, but 5.1 gets worst. See

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread xtknight
Jerther: Okay, yup, I have the same exact bug. And yes this fixes it for me with no side effects. I've been using 5.1 mode for a week or more, in games that use alsa emulation mode, gstreamer apps, and pretty much everything, with nary a problem. And there is no buzzing. Yea as for your

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread xtknight
Jerther: Hmm it's possible your CPU just cannot handle the speed of sound without the SIMD in there :-) Doubtful though. I don't think sound volume controls should take 100% CPU. If they do, something's seriously wrong. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-26 Thread xtknight
Jerther: Doh, sorry for posting many times. But, I want you to try (with your current setup) to go back to stereo mode in the control panel and see if it works once again, after having switched to 5.1. All with my patch in there. So make sure it is consistently reproducible it is *5.1 mode

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-25 Thread Jerther
@xtKnight I did a clean install (for the 10th time) 10.04 AMD64 First thing I did was to run your script. The following line appeared last: E: main.c: ANDY_FIX: buggy SIMD optimizations disabled. in your script, you tell to hit ctrl+c. so did I, and the same line appeared again. then I set the

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-22 Thread xtknight
Jerther: Very sorry, I don't think this is a direct result of my patch, but perhaps a side effect of its installation. Are you sure that you cannot start PulseAudio manually? Also you can re-enable the autostart by typing the following, as long as you don't have any other options in that file

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-21 Thread Jerther
@xtknight your fix didn't work for me. here's what happends: W: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. E: main.c: ANDY_FIX: buggy SIMD optimizations disabled. E: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! E: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-20 Thread Jerther
@Stefan Goldmann I did what you said in both your post here and in the post you made on another forum, which are basically the same thing. I'm sorry to tell that It doesn't work for me. Although, when I move some sliders in PA applet, nothing moves in alsamixer, which is what we want. But

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-20 Thread xtknight
You don't need to bypass pulseaudio or rip your entire system apart. How about just commenting out the block where it says getenv..NO_SIMD... keyword NO_SIMD src/daemon/pulseaudio/main.c ln ~877 // fixes cracking/rattling/buzzing sounds with 5.1 /*if (!getenv(PULSE_NO_SIMD)) {

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-06-20 Thread xtknight
Typo, src/daemon/main.c I mean. I posted a patch on my PPA. If people are having a problem other than SIMD, IMO they should post another bug report as it's not the same problem. Not that I think the problem *I'm* having is king, but then another report should be made for this one. I don't

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-27 Thread Stefan Goldmann
@Nate: I'm sorry for that. No, at the moment I have no idea, but if you like, we can try to investigate. What Ubuntu version do you have? (I use 10.04) What sound card? (I have SB Live Value) Can you attach? 1. The output of aplay -L and aplay -l (this is a lower case L) 2. A pulseaudio log

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-26 Thread Stefan Goldmann
Hi folks. Thanks for all the comments, especially #127 (Daniel) and #143 (Pebas). As Daniel mentioned in #127, the problem is based in the way newer PA versions are merging the PA channel volume settings into the physical channel volume settings. Furthermore, it seems to be unclear, whether this

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-26 Thread Nate Wiebe
@Stefan Goldmann: When I tried this PA became unreponsive, two of my cpu threads were at 100% and no sound. Reverting the changes brought back sound. Any ideas? Tried both surround40, surround51 and other surround**'s. Wish this bug had a bit more attention. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-26 Thread Nate Wiebe
Spelling typo: unreponsive - unresponsive -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-25 Thread xtknight
@Daniel T Chen: If there's a bug in the SIMD code why not just force PULSE_NO_SIMD, or revert to previous SIMD code, whatever it was before the issue started (for the Ubuntu package), until the SIMD code is fixed by PulseAudio? At least, clearly this is what seemed to be the problem for me. As

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-25 Thread xtknight
What Pebas suggests I guess makes it so the SIMD code isn't hit in the wrong way as to cause a bug. I would try my hand at it, but it's very hard to find a bug in someone's code by limiting it down when you have no experience with the PulseAudio code base or with the x86 variant of assembly. Is

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-14 Thread Desh Danz
@Jean-François Fortin Tam sorry but we're talking about a major bug dragging itself since a consistent amount of months and two different releases, that no one care of, and see effort put in lower boot time under 10 seconds as a priority over the correct functioning of the software. I think

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-13 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
@Desh Danz: please refrain from comments like this. You are rude and not helpful. Speaking as a user who's affected by this bug too. @Jerther: I have perfectly fine surround sound... If I leave all the speaker sliders to their default values (100% in pavucontrol, or centered in

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-13 Thread Léa GRIS
Here is a dump from Alsa Information Script. This provided as advice from the #pulseaudio support channel in irc.freenode.net. wget -O alsa-info.sh http://alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh bash ./alsa-info.sh Output available here:

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-12 Thread Desh Danz
eh ehhh... as I said, that's just ridiculous... when I wrote this some time ago someone did even blame my post as flame and so... Now that a new release is out I can't but confirm my original impression: this bug is frankly ridiculous because ridiculous is having it even in the new release after

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-12 Thread Jerther
@Desh Danz Thanks for the tip. Although I disagree about KDE being more evolute than GNOME which is just a plain opinion, I shall give Kubuntu a try for sure because I'm TIRED of waiting. I bought a brand new system a year ago for a HTPC and couldn't get 5.1 sound from it yet. I was excited to

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-12 Thread Jmadero
Yes I have 5.1 running through mine. The noise starts up if I play around with the subwoofer tab a bit but if I leave that alone I have nice sounding 5.1 -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-07 Thread JayK
The workaround described by Pebas seems to work for me as well. 5.1 works and I don't hear any strange noises. Only thing is that Banshee now fails to play some songs and hogs the CPU... However, Amarok seems to work fine so I can't tell whether this is really related to the workaround. I've

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-07 Thread Darrin Ritter
This appears to remove the high pitch rattling for me, but it seems that it bypasses PA not solve the internal problem. I am still for a solution that allows PA to stay in place and work effectively thanks Pebas for your help on this Darrin On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:51 AM, JayK jak...@gmail.com

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-03 Thread Pebas
I finally get rid of this annoying sound problem! After testing a LOT of different configurations, this is what it worked for me: 1) Set profile to Analog Surround 5.1 Output + Analog Stereo Input 2) Replace volume = merge with volume = ignore in *ALL* elements (including masters sections) of

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-01 Thread cccccccc
Graham Clenaghan excellent, do you wanna suggest, we have to wait another half year to hear 5+1 sound in ubuntu? sounds good to me:( -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-01 Thread Simon Allen
This sucks so bad. I moved to arch on my main machine because of this bug. (it doesn't push the rubbish that is pulse on you like ubuntu does). Arch without pulse + 5.1 works perfectly right out of the box. I didn't have to do a thing. No buzz, no stutter. Pulseaudio is stupid, just get rid of

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-01 Thread cccccccc
that's true. i've just installed new ubuntu 10 and problem still remains. interesting... i would get rid of pulseaudio, but I've found out that gnome is so connected with pulseaudio, that it is impossible for me to use only alsa. since I'm connected with ubuntu, there is no hope... anybody

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-01 Thread Simon Allen
Just change distro or something, this is insane. Why are we focusing on bloody boot speed when we can't get audio working even marginally decently? I don't get it. On 2 May 2010 06:51, c...@post.sk wrote: that's true. i've just installed new ubuntu 10 and problem still remains.

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-05-01 Thread Gus
Daniel, thanks for everything. Is there anything else we can do to help get this moved forward? Additional hardware profiles? I just did a fresh install of 10.04LTS 64 (with xfi audio). My sound started off muted. Unmuted and switched to 5.1 + mono in and had the same result. Switching to 2ch

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-24 Thread Graham Clenaghan
This still happens on Lucid for me, though not as bad as it used to be on 5.1 (still not worth having the extra speaker over the working 4.0). If you switch to 4.1 its just as bad. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-19 Thread Daniel T Chen
I have asked for comments some time ago but have not heard back yet. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-19 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
@Daniel T. Chen (comment #127, which was quite insightful): have you discussed with upstream pulseaudio about this? We seem to know the cause, and we know that it used to work fine in the past, so surely there must be a solution the pulseaudio project could come up with? -- Highpitched Rattling

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-18 Thread Murz
Problem is still there in lucid with latest updates on Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) disable-lfe-remixing = yes isn't help. What I can try else? -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-18 Thread Colin Kelly
I think I may have made some progress toward a working config that significantly reduces this issue in Lucid beta 2 (installed w/ alternate amd64 CD). I have the Intel HDAudio (ICH10) onboard audio chip (:~$ lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-18 Thread Colin Kelly
Sorry, I meant to include this URL to the forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9140938#post9140938 -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-04-11 Thread Daniel T Chen
(lowering importance due to reports of workaround on *some* hardware, and 5.1 is not the default output configuration) ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: High = Medium -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel T Chen
Okay, it's pretty clear what's happening now. The volumes are being merged thanks to the configuration in /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa- mixer/paths/analog-output-speaker.conf and /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa- mixer/paths/analog-output.conf, so a slight adjustment using gnome- media's mixer applet

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-25 Thread Jerther
My pleasure! If you need further help, just ask. By the way, My hardware is a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 (SB0220) which is some kind of DELL OEM stuff. It's pretty common and the two I have here have been donated to me. You can have one on eBay for about 10$USD, shipped to your mailbox. --

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-25 Thread Jmadero
Mine is fixed! I upgraded to Lucid again last week and just did a test run, set my USB sound card to 5.1, cranked the volume all the way up and no screeching at allI'm happy to say the least -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-25 Thread Tomas Šiaulys
I have SB Live 5.1. I use Lucid with latest updates. Adding this line: enable-lfe-remixing = yes to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf seems to have fixed the problem for me. Thanks! -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-24 Thread Daniel T Chen
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-23 Thread Simon Allen
Pulseaudio is just rubbish. Everything just works without it. They should just remove it from the stock installation, surround sound would work as it should if they did that. On 23 March 2010 10:51, Jerther jert...@herzeleid.net wrote: ** Attachment added: Daniel T Chen, here are the files you

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-22 Thread Achim
** Attachment removed: gnome volume control http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40317182/gvc.ogv -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-22 Thread Bob
It would be nice to have this fixed in lucid… -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-22 Thread Mastermolch
I wonder why i m reading about alsa, amixer here. This is a bug report about a pulseaudio bug and to turn off pulseaudio is no way to solve the problem. It is just a way to make the system usable again. I would like to help somehow, I m not a programmer, just a user. If you need some files or

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-22 Thread Jerther
** Attachment added: Daniel T Chen, here are the files you requested, properly named and with attached description. Hope this helps!!! http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41663133/amixer%20before%20and%20after.zip -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-21 Thread Desh Danz
All this situation is, at the least, a bit demotivating... months have passed by and the bug is still here... Today I've downloaded the first public beta of Lucid Lynx and after live booting the cd I've been welcomed at the desktop, with my delight, by exactly the same issue: setting my sound

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-21 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
Daniel, here are the requested output files of amixer in various scenarios. I hope this helps more than the flamebaits/trolls. ** Attachment added: amixer before and after.tar http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41549319/amixer%20before%20and%20after.tar -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-20 Thread ArchLight
I was able to stop the ringing in my 5.1 setup by running alsamixer in terminal and pushing the volume on all channels to 100. As soon as I fiddle with any volume controls in the Sound preferences window, the ringing starts again. I control volume on my speakers now and it does not ring at all.

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-20 Thread Daniel T Chen
There appear to be lots of different mixer configurations involved. For those of you who have had success with slightly adjusting the mixer controls using alsamixer, please attach *clearly labeled* files for these two conditions: 1. amixer from after adjusting controls so that the distortion is

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-20 Thread Daniel T Chen
Note also that amixer and alsamixer are separate utilities. I'm asking specifically for 'amixer' output. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-20 Thread Jerther
I'm sorry what file(s) do you need exactly? could you also tell the path to them? -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-20 Thread Daniel T Chen
Jerther, e.g., amixer before.txt amixer after.txt -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-06 Thread Achim
I wasn't really able to test it, because g-v-c behaves quit unexpected. I have attached a Video where you can see what happens. pulseaudio: Installed: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu11 Candidate: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu11 Version table: ***

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-03-04 Thread Daniel T Chen
Please ensure that you can reproduce the symptom under the following conditions: 1. You're using at least pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu11; 2. You aren't using flat-volumes (by default you aren't). Next things to confirm if symptom is reproducible under (1) and (2):

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-17 Thread Gus
Sorry should have added: I have lost all sound once the desktop is displayed. The ubu theme sound does not play. However the sound that plays for log in (squeek tick sound?) does play. So sound is working at some point. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-16 Thread Simon Allen
Yeah, lucid has made the problem even worse if anything. On 17 February 2010 03:26, Gus g...@lgze.com wrote: I have lost all sound now. I'm unsure what happened. It seemed to happen between reboots so it's possible a patch caused it. I'm debating between doing a full install of 10.04 alpha 3

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-16 Thread Adrian Wilkins
I thought I had this licked... but now it's returned. Worse, the workaround above (export PULSE_NO_SIMD=1 and remove the ~/.pulse folder) now only reduces the problem, which now seems to worsen over time. In addition, things that previously caused the problem to abate, like setting the levels in

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-16 Thread Mike Williams
Out of curiosity, has anyone tried playing with Lucid Lynx to see if this bug has been fixed? I'm tempted to get a new HD for backups and jump in on the Alpha testing a little earlier this time. ; ) -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-16 Thread Jmadero
Yeah I tried Lucid a couple times. The problem was still there and it's actually gotten worse for me as I no longer even have options for 4.1 or above (5.1) with my USB sound card, before at least I could just turn it down to avoid the screetching, now those options are gone -- Highpitched

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-16 Thread Gus
I have lost all sound now. I'm unsure what happened. It seemed to happen between reboots so it's possible a patch caused it. I'm debating between doing a full install of 10.04 alpha 3 in a few days or installing 9.10 in my alt boot partition and then slowly adding patches up to current. I suspect

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-14 Thread Cliff1000000
Well I take it all back! I was in the middle of a game of Glest when the sytem crashed and I was not able to boot into the new kernel even after trying booting off the Ubuntu CD and doing a Gparted check. I had to boot into 2.6.31 and remove 2.6.32 via Synaptic. Dang. That was really nice

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-14 Thread Jerther
At least you bring some hope with kernel 2.6.32 thanks for the info, I feel less desperate now ;) --- cliff1000...@gmail.com wrote: From: Cliff100 cliff1000...@gmail.com To: jert...@herzeleid.net Subject: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-13 Thread Cliff1000000
Well its working now after I updated the Kernel to 2.6.32-020632-generic. By following this human's tutorial with one twist. http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/780-upgrade-your-kernel-the-safe-way-in-ubuntu-linuxmint After I rebooted twice my system hung and would not go on. Despite much

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-05 Thread Religiosa
I've got the same problem. Mysterious sounds when changing volume. I'm using 5.1 analog output on Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family). Rear channel doesn't work too. I've tried to install some old PCI Creative sound card (SB0460 I guess), and as someone has already described, noise

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-05 Thread Religiosa
UPD: Well, I mean hissing in 5.1. 4.1 works almost fine, but both without rear speakers. I have to say almost, because in addition to rear speakers, if I pull balance slider more then 1/2 from the middle possition then there is this hissing noise again. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-02-02 Thread Gus
I have this with a creative xfi on 9.10 64bit. Killing the the .pulse dir resets the issue and I'm back to normal. However changing volume seems to be causing it for me. Including setting the volume to max (via the desktop slider). I run at 5.1output with mono input. Previously to work around,

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-21 Thread cccccccc
Yes, maybe you can move sound to all 5.1 but it won't be surround. I am really concerned about by 5.1 Creative channels, costs me some money and 3 months no surround using Ubuntu. Maybe should rename this bug to 5.1 for sale:) -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-20 Thread cccccccc
Cliff, this is 5.1 bug. AFAIK optic connection is not possilbe at 5.1 (only stereo). Correct me, if I'm wrong. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-20 Thread Luke Yelavich
Yes, its only possible to use 5.1 via analog connections at this time. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-20 Thread Cliff1000000
wrote 2 hours ago: #98 Cliff, this is 5.1 bug. AFAIK optic connection is not possilbe at 5.1 (only stereo). Correct me, if I'm wrong. I always have my sound card connected to my stereo via Fiber optic. I thought that and Spdif connections are the only way to get 5.1? But

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-19 Thread Cliff1000000
Not sure what happened but now I have no sound until I go into sound Preferences and change from Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input to something else then back. If I leave it on Analog Stereo Output I get sound on startup but lots of popping. Its going out my digital fiber optic

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-18 Thread Dominik Schürmann
I have done the following things but all of them doesn't resolve the problem fully: - options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N is commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-conf - pulseaudio-dev PPA didn't help so i reverted back to the original pulseaudio packages with apt

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-11 Thread Jerther
I experience the same problem. Sound Blaster 5.1 SB0220 Works fine in stereo mode I found a simple fix, but it won't stay if I reboot: - Install gnome-alsamixer (not sure about the name) - Barely slide the PCM slider in gnome-alsamixer here's my complete story

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-11 Thread Colin Kelly
I reported this bug in October but mine got merged with this bug. I had initialy said it was the gnome volume control and not pulseaudio. The fact that the noise was tied to the precise position on the volume slider, and the fact that the slider goes all the way to 150%(!) (reminds me of spinal

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-07 Thread Mike Williams
Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out on the weekend. Cheers! -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-07 Thread Dominik Schürmann
I tried the suggestions from Murz, but this only fixes my subwoofer, the noisy highpitched sounds come again when i move the soundslider a little bit up and down. my current workaround is using gnome-alsamixer to move every slider to 100% except the master slider, this slider can be used to

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-06 Thread Mastermolch
I did a test installation of Karmic on another partition and added the Ubuntu Audio Dev team PPA to get a update to pulseaudio 0.9.21. I was curious if the problem is fixed in a newer version. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I added

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-06 Thread Murz
Adding disable-lfe-remixing = no fixes problem for me too on Karmic pulseaudio 0.9.21-0ubuntu3~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1 alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu5 Before this I didn't hear anything from my subwoofer (LFE), like in 5.0 configuration. When I change pulseaudio to anything else (2.0) and back

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel T Chen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Murz wrote: Adding disable-lfe-remixing = no fixes problem for me too on Karmic pulseaudio Unfortunately this approach can't be used by default (i.e., we can't enable LFE remixing by default due to some very poor hardware in the wild). -- Highpitched Rattling

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-02 Thread Mike Williams
I hope so. There was a major bug with the display of Mythtv in Jaunty that was never fixed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/mesa/+bug/341898 As a result, my HTPC hasn't been fully functional since Intrepid. I'm starting to wonder if the six month release cycle is becoming a

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-02 Thread Simon Allen
6 months is way short. It annoys me because by the time the planning and summits and stuff are over they have less than 4 months until everything must stop development and prepare for launch. It makes things really inefficient. I mean really, is one year really that long? Or even a rolling release

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-01 Thread Mike Williams
I hate to whine, but is anyone actually looking into this or has it been abandoned? I'm currently running Jaunty and Karmic and I'd like to wipe one of them to free up the hard drive. Cheers! -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-01 Thread Jmadero
I think that it being confirmed and high means it's being looked into, I don't think we can expect developers to give weekly updates. My guess is a lot of time is being put into this issue -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

Re: [Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2010-01-01 Thread Simon Allen
I hope so. We have such a crappy sound stack. 2010/1/2 Jmadero jmad...@usa.com I think that it being confirmed and high means it's being looked into, I don't think we can expect developers to give weekly updates. My guess is a lot of time is being put into this issue -- Highpitched

[Bug 445849] Re: Highpitched Rattling like Sound with 5.1 Surround Configuration on Karmic Koala

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Breier
I presume this symptom is reproducible with 0.9.20 from the ubuntu-audio-dev PPA (or by using Lucid)? Sorry for taking so long. I installed pulseaudio 0.9.21-0ubuntu3~~karmic~ubuntuaudiodev1 ( deps) from the ubuntu-audio-dev PPA. No change, still hissing. -- Highpitched Rattling like Sound

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